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Author's note: Intaglio Daughters is an homage text for the poet Lyn Hejinian. All titles (in italics above each poem) are taken from her book The Unfollowing. In the preface to her book she writes "I wanted each line to be as difficult to accept on the basis of the previous and subsequent lines as death is for we who are alive-a comparison that I make intentionally, since my intention in writing the sequence of poems I'm calling 'The Unfollow...

Laynie Browne's LETTERS INSCRIBED IN SNOW navigates the complexity of personhood and questions what constitutes a material and immaterial being. In a series of ever-fascinating epistles, notes, and scenes, Browne deftly interrogates what informs a fictional or real life, and whether the real and the imagined are a distinction without a difference. Enter this text and you'll enter the lush thoughtscape of the poet as philosopher, unafraid to pl...

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PRACTICE HAS NO SEQUEL is a book of prose poems, meditations on time, perception, loss and bafflement, which follows her earlier volume P R A C T I C E (SplitLevel Texts, 2015). This book is a study of perception which attempts to bring awareness to metacognition. Facets of investigation include: contemplative practice, liminal space, the uncanny, dislocation as well as the realm of visionary, and artistic practice. What do we practice by defa...

Fiction. "Laynie Browne channels the energy of Mira in a book that is both charred and luminous. Her writing is a gift of abrasion, making the body of the reader a portal too. Who is arriving? Who is very near? The intensity of this narrative carried me through the summer in which I read it. Browne is a genius of aperture and stance. All desire, she has written a remarkable book. It changes something to read it (the book) and to have it near. ...

From poet, novelist, and teacher Laynie Brown comes Translating the Lilies Back into Lists, an homage text to the poet C. D. Wright.

From poet, novelist, and teacher Laynie Brown comes Translating the Lilies Back into Lists, an homage text to the poet C. D. Wright.

Amelia has the ability to levitate. During her wanderings through dream galleries, costumed performances, and future libraries she meets Clara (an elusive photographer), Sebastion (part human, part lion) and a chorus of cynics who exist only in partial bodies. In this voyage into the illusion of identity, Laynie Browne serves us a psychological portrait of the creative act.

Is there such a thing as a 'poet's novel, ' a text which uniquely traverses boundaries between genres? Why do poets turn to prose? If such a form does exist, how is it characterized? The Poet's Novel, a talk by Laynie Browne, presented with drawings by Noah Saterstrom, examines this erratic, hybrid and often elusive form. Writers discussed include Virginia Woolf, Marcel Proust, and Lydia Davis, among others. Poet and novelist Laynie Browne is ...

A collection of original essays written by contemporary poets about the innovative and unforgettable novels written by their predecessors.

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A poetic elegy exploring birth and loss

How do we experience the world before memory, before language, before the senses have separated, or before the concepts of "you" and "I" have been distinguished? Laynie Browne investigates both the limits and potential of such an inchoate world in her new book of poetry, "Drawing of a Swan Before Memory."In a series of elegant prose poems, Browne guides the reader through the intricate development of human perception, where the haunting vastne...

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This National Poetry Series-winning collection emerges from half-remembered fairy tales and reconstructed dreams.